Despite some worthy attempts at spending restraint, President Obama's latest budget plan relies more heavily on new revenues, rosy economic assumptions, and accounting shifts than many taxpayers would expect, according to a special National Taxpayers Unio Read More

The Bush Administration's 2009 "lame duck" budget admirably proposes to make tax-rate reductions permanent and slow the growth of some spending, but taxpayers have seen birds of this feather quacking to no avail around Washington before. That's th Read More

Despite annual promises of fiscal discipline, President Bush's latest budget shows that by the beginning of Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 federal spending will have grown 49 percent since he took office -- just one of the many interesting items in an analysis Read More

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Founded in 1973, National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) is a non-partisan research and educational organization dedicated to showing Americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. Through difference-making data, analysis, and commentary, we empower citizens to engage in the critical policy debates of our time – and hold elected officials accountable.